Woman Granted A Professorship

Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, a distinguished classical archaeologist, will join the Faculty this year as its only woman professor.

Mrs. Vermeule is leaving Wellesley College to become the Zemurray-Stone Radeliffe Professor, a chair endowed in 1948 specifically for distinguished female scholars.

"I'm very excited about the appointment, of course. I'm still filled with the same elation that I felt when Mrs. Bunting first told me of it," Mrs. Vermeule said yesterday.

Mrs. Vermeule-who was a visiting professor at Harvard last year-also serves as a research fellow at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where her husband is curator of the classical department. In 1968, after receiving the Radeliffe Graduate Society Medal, she left for Greece to participate in excavations on the island of Thera.

Excellence

Mrs. Vermeule will be the only woman with tenure on the Faculty. Yesterday she expressed optimism about the future of women at Harvard. "I can't see any difficulty in appointing more woman professors. There are so many excellent women on the Faculty that Harvard has excellent talent to draw upon," she said.